Franz Anton Zeiller

After 1728, Balthasar Riepp, who had married one of Zeiller's daughters, also began working in his studio and provided Franz with lessons in fresco painting.

His travels initially took him to Augsburg, where he came under the stylistic influence of Johann Evangelist Holzer; working as his assistant on a church painting project.

[2] His first personal commission came in 1752, from St. Mang's Abbey, Füssen, where the abbot, Gallus Zeiller, was a distant relative.

He held that position until 1783, when Johann Jakob died, and he returned to Reutte to complete some of his commissions that had been left unfinished.

When that was accomplished, he remained there with his adoptive family and continued to be active, creating small works, and one large fresco for the choir at a church in Grän.